We're finally finding out all the secret ways people use emoji thanks to Instagram
On Monday, Instagram revealed in a blog post that users can now hashtag emojis.
The exciting news swept the Instagram world and people immediately began hashtagging their hearts out. Users can now click the search bar and go to hashtags to see how all of their friends and strangers are using the descriptive emojis.
Instagram told Buzzfeed that the three most popular hashtagged emojis (so far) were the kiss emoji, the heart eyes emoji, and the crying-while-laughing emoji.
The kiss emoji had over 83,000 hashtags at the time of this post, the vast majority of which were selfies.
The heart eye emoji had even more hashtags with over 128,000 hashtags at the time of the post.
The crying and laughing emoji had over 65,000 hashtags at the time of this post.
Next, we decided to try some of our own favorite emojis. First up, the dog emoji.
The monkey covering its eyes emoji had almost 23,000 hashtags.
One of my personal favorite emojis - the wine glass - didn't have a ton of hashtags yet (only around 4,600 at the time of this post), but that number is likely to increase over the weekend.
The 100 emoji was an extremely popular hashtag with nearly 39,000 posts. Most of them were quotes or inspirational pictures.
The hands emoji - everyone's favorite celebratory symbol - had nearly 12,000 tags at the time of this post. They ranged from food pictures to (surprise, surprise) a lot of selfies.
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The painting nails emoji did not have a lot of variety, as you can see:
The emoji crown had over 15,000 hashtags, but no one could agree what it meant - did it symbolize a king, queen, princess, prince, royalty, etc.?
And last of all, the broken heart emoji.
Sadly, the only emoji you won't see a hashtag for is the infamous eggplant.
This is dispite the fact that you can still search controversial hashtags like the gun and the pill:
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